Category Archives for "Podcast"

Run training of Kipchoge, Farah and Rudisha with Matt Fox of Sweat Elite | EP#195

Matt Fox is the founder of Sweat Elite. A website where you can learn about the habits, routines and training programs of the world’s best runners and coaches, including Eliud Kipchoge, Mo Farah, David Rudisha, Renato Canova and Alberto Salazar.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT:

• Similarities and patterns in the training and habits of the world’s best runners.
• Are there any big differences or discrepancies in their methodologies?
• The mindset of Kipchoge, Farah and others: playful and not too serious in the day to day, but with a clear and strong long-term perspective.
• The Renato Canova training methodology: used by almost all marathoners to ever run sub-2:05.
• How the top runners and coaches use (or don’t use) data in training and racing.

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That Triathlon Show (flipping the mic) with Michael Liberzon, Andrew Buckrell and Mikael Eriksson | EP#194

The microphone is flipped, and Michael Liberzon and Andrew Buckrell from the Endurance Innovation Podcast interview Mikael Eriksson about That Triathlon Show, coaching, and endurance sports innovation. Enjoy this behind-the-scenes insight into That Triathlon Show!

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT:

• The genesis of That Triathlon Show
• How I find the right guests and topics for the podcast
• Responsible journalism, being selective and applying filters
• My favourite interviews from the That Triathlon Show archives and how they impacted me
• What (if anything) are the next ‘big things’ in endurance sports?
• What’s next for That Triathlon Show and Scientific Triathlon?

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Evidence-based supplements for triathletes and endurance athletes | EP#193

What dietary supplements should triathletes and endurance athletes consider using based on current evidence? We go through a recent review paper that has analysed all the current evidence to come up with clear guidelines for which supplements are potentially beneficial and which will just result in expensive pee.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT:

• Supplements used to prevent or treat nutrient deficiencies
• Supplements (sports foods) used to provide a practical form of energy and nutrients
• Supplements that directly improve sports performance
• Supplements that improve performance indirectly
• Adverse effects and antidoping rule violations from lack of quality assurance in supplement manufacturing

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Scientific Triathlon coach Lachlan Kerin | EP#192

Lachlan Kerin is an Australian triathlon coach, professional triathlete, and the newest member of the Scientific Triathlon team. He has over 50 professional IRONMAN 70.3 races to his name, has experience from working with some of the best coaches in the world, and among other accomplishments, has set 3 bike course records in IRONMAN 70.3 races.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT:

• Lachlan’s training methodology – how does a professional long-distance triathlete train?
• What he has learnt from being coached by coaches like Cam Brown, Grant Giles, and professor Paul Laursen
• Advice for age-groupers on low-hanging fruit to pick and common mistakes to avoid
• Lachlan’s coaching philosophy and methodology

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Hydration in endurance sports: a Q&A with Andy Blow | EP#191

Andy Blow, founder of Precision Hydration and former elite triathlete answers listener questions about hydration and electrolytes in racing and training.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT:

• Hydration preloading for races
• Rehydrating after training and racing
• Having three independent levers on race day: water, electrolytes and calories
• Hypotonic vs. hypertonic solutions
• Cramping on the Ironman run

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Lactate and bioenergetics: quantifying and improving endurance performance with Shannon Grady | EP#190

Shannon Grady is the founder of GO! Athletics and an expert in the application of bioenergetics, lactate dynamics, and applied physiology for endurance performance optimization. Shannon has worked with over 9000 athletes including Olympic, professional, collegiate, and high school athletes in over 25 sports, and is herself a former professional runner, NCAA All-American, and five-time Team USA Triathlon with 4 Top-10 ITU World Championship finishes.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT:

• The science of bioenergetics and lactate dynamics and how they relate to endurance performance and training
• The fallacy of traditional lactate testing
• A systems based training approach based on the individuals range of lactate concentration
• How many endurance athletes lack at least one system and are therefore bioenergetically limited and therefore compromising their endurance perfomance
• Training mistakes that lead to bioenergetic deficits and suboptimal performance and training adaptations
• Nutrition mistakes that lead to bioenergetic deficits and suboptimal performance and training adaptations

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Ten high-leverage ways to improve your training and triathlon performance | EP#189

Learn about ten extremely important and high-leverage ways to improve your training and triathlon performance. These aspects of the training process are often not in place, in particular in self-coached athletes. If you can start incorporating even a few of them in your training you are pretty much guaranteed to see great improvements in your training and triathlon performance.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT:

• Knowing the purpose of each and every workout
• Having the right mindset in training to make the most of every workout
• Prerequisites of successful workouts – mobilisation, hydration status, energy and carbohydrate status, recovery status
• Using session-RPE to train at the right intensity
• Focusing on the big picture
• Balancing your engine and your chassis
• Getting out of your comfort zone by doing things that you consciously or subconsciously tend to avoid doing in training
• Using group training strategically
• Benefiting from the compound effect of coaching, testing, and technical advice
• Constantly improving your training and racing by an effective review and self-reflection process

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Swim Types and Fault Fixers with Swim Smooth’s Paul Newsome | EP#188

Paul Newsome coaches thousands of triathletes and open water swimmers every year through his company Swim Smooth with its local squad in Perth, through international courses and clinics, through the global Swim Smooth coaching network and indirectly through the Swim Smooth blog and podcast. In this episode we discuss the Swim Types system and how to correct and improve the stroke of each Swim Type.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT:

• Taming the Arnie
• Boosting the Bambino
• Inspiring the Kicktastic
• Curing the Overglider
• Supporting the Swinger
• Motivating the Smooth

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Nitrate loading, marathons, and endurance sports science with prof. Andy Jones | EP#187

Professor Andy Jones is internationally recognized for his work in academia and applied sports science. He has authored more than 280 original research and review articles, worked with the two best marathoners in history (Eliud Kipchoge and Paula Radcliffe) and is perhaps best known for his pioneering work in the use of dietary nitrate (found in e.g. beetroot) and its impact on endurance performance.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT:

• Nitrate loading: what are the benefits and what is the proper protocol for it?
• Can nitrate loading be done with normal beetroot juice or beetroots, or are specific supplements preferable?
• Will we see the 2-hour marathon milestone broken soon, and what advances in running should take place for it to happen?
• Running and endurance performance in large part comes down to three parameters: aerobic capacity (VO2max), economy, and lactate threshold. How should we train to improve these parameters?
• The Critical Power concept and how it stacks up to Maximum Lactate Steady State.

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Anybody can be a Kona qualifier: genetics is not your limiter with Alan Cozens | EP#186

Alan Couzens is a coach and exercise physiologist in Boulder, Colorado. Through his laboratory testing of a large number of athletes over a long time period he has found that triathlon and endurance sports potential (specifically VO2max) is far more trainable and less limited by genetics than what most textbooks and university courses would have us believe. In fact, most triathletes may actually have the potential to qualify for Kona – with the right training.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT:

• How trainable is VO2max really?
• Why do most athletes fail to reach their athletic potential even though they are putting in a lot of hard work?
• What is the right way to train to reach your athletic potential?
• The importance of training at the first lactate/ventilatory threshold (aerobic threshold)
• The importance of proper testing so you can do the right testing for you
• When to use heart rate vs. pace/power in training

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